The Rise and Fall of TWA

by Jack

TWA is an Airline that went out of business in 2001, because of bankruptcy. Several flights made it almost impossible for them to ever fly again. The first plane EVER to crash on TWA was Flight 553. The plane was descending towards the airport when a Beechcraft Baron private jet crashed head-on. The second crash was TWA Flight 159. It overshot the runway after an abort takeoff. The WORST crash TWA ever had was Flight 800. Shortly after takeoff, the plane blew up over the Long Island Sound. The nose fell out from the plane and then the rest of the plane went up, stalled, then came down. The NTSB was only able to put together the main part of the plane. The rest of it was never recovered. This is why people don’t fly TWA.